Monday, May 2, 2011

Digital Archive

We are also still working on our online digital archive, which is at the Northern Virginia Digital Archive.  We have succeeded in getting it up and running--that was an effort in itself--and are now trying to figure how to work it into our history courses.

Digital Newspaper project

Finished up my digital newspaper assignment that I will be using in future history courses.
See http://www.ctevans.net/SNews/Index.html
The assignment is based on fragments of my hometown newspaper from 1907.  It is a good example of how historians are usually trying to interpret fragmentary evidence from the past.  I had two students try it out this semester with good results.